Americans for the Arts

The author examines a number of other factors in addition to the use of video recorders in the decline of attendances at movies both in the U.K. and U.S.

The author discusses the role of economists in the support and development of culture, particularly to subsidies to the arts.

The author describes the struggle of American cities to reinvent themselves for the post-industrial economy and the pivotal role the arts play in that process.

The author describes the 1992 World Economic Forum and World Arts Forum held respectively in Switzerland and Turkey. Internationally, leaders of government, business, and academia are recognizing the importance of the arts to world economic and political survival af the foremost means of easing the cross- and multicultural encounters.

The author constrasts upper-middle class homes in the and Japan where the author concludes the difference is the relationship in the two countries between social reality and cultural production.

The author comments on articles by James Heilbrun, Samuel Schwarz and Mary Peters. The author concludes that their projections are inconclusive.

The author analysis the both the market of selling video recorders and the rental market for video cassettes in France.

The Association of Art Museum Directors comprises approximately 140 museums in the and Canada that have in common the collection, preservation and exhibition of works of art. They range from the great multicollection museums of New York, Chicago, Boston and Washington, D. C. to museums highly specialized as to era, region, subject matter and medium. Their collections include American, Asian, African, European, antique, medieval, modern, and contemporary art, art of the American West, and North Carolina folk art. There are museums that specialize in ceramics, glass, photography, portraiture,

The Arts Endowment has been involved, financially or otherwise, in most of these efforts to increase the supply of economic data on the arts. However, in the past two years, the involvement has been more deliberate and systematic. The study that this paper reports is part of the new effort to assist the Arts Endowment in making decisions about the Endowment's future role in the development and improvement of economic data on arts and cultural institutions.

The Arts and New York; Special Issue of New York Affairs, v.4, n. 4, 1978 was published by New York University, Graduate School of Public Administration.

The Nonprofit Almanac 1992-1993: Dimensions of the Independent Sector is the fourth biennial profile of the independent sector of American society, which too often has been neglected in other statistical profiles about the United States. The goal of this report is to broaden public awareness and understanding of this important part of American life by describing its size, scope and functions.

Summary of the final report of the Maricopa Regional Arts and Culture Task Force, which illustrates the economic importance of arts and culture, outlines the financial challenges facing the Valley's arts and culture institutions, and recommends regional strategies for advancement.

Summary of the final report of the Maricopa Regional Arts and Culture Task Force which illustrates the economic importance of arts and culture; outlines the financial challenges facing Maricopa County, Arizonas arts and culture institutions; and recommends strategies and actions for improving the arts and culture sector.

Strategies for building an integrated vision of creativity and development in community-based arts and culture neighborhood development projects.

Sponsored by the Committee on Urban Public Economics. Three major research issues present themselves to economists working in the nonprofit area. The first is to develop an overall theory of the behavior of nonprofit firms analogous to the theory of profit maximization for for-profit firms or to the theories of staff or budget maximization behavior recently proposed for public sector bureaucracies. The second important research issue concerns the sectoral mix within industries; that is, why do some industries contain predominantly non-profit, public sector, or for-profit firms, while others